Re: [techtalk] IPCHAINS

2000-03-01 Thread moebius
Hey Sriram, Plenty of HowTo's on ipchains., Packet filtering can be done thru them. I would suggest checking out mason if you're new to the ideas of firewalling. Mason automates the ipchains creation by listening to the traffic going thru you network. That is how I learned. Took my network down fo

Re: [techtalk] IPCHAINS

2000-03-01 Thread Sriram-HO
Hi all Is there any detailed step by step document on IPCHAINS? I want to implement ipmasq and do some kind of packet filtering. Also is there any tool for Linux something like websense? Cheers Sriram [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread Jeff
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 03:01:12PM -0600, Jeff Dike wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > AHA! My DVD is bootable! And I have a CD-RW > > Will let you know if this works tonight... thanks Jeff! > > Cool. Since it's a bit larger than a floppy, you can put a whole root > filesystem on it if

Re: [techtalk] viewer for doc/excel

2000-03-01 Thread K. Ziel
this sounds more like what i'm looking for!! i haven't had a chance to check it out yet..but i very much appreciate the URL point. kristin > abs is a smaller util than staroffice ( SO is a memory hog ) it can open > excel docs and has a macro language thats compatible with vba. i dont > use

Re: [techtalk] xseti

2000-03-01 Thread Linda Walsh
Stephan Zaniolo wrote: > > There are actually several 'xseti's (by different names of course > ;^) Some of the seti distributions contain an "xsetiathome" program (e.g. > setiathome-2.0.i386-pc-linux-gnu-gnulibc2.1.tar has it, but > setiathome-2.0.i686-pc-linux-gnu-gnulibc2.1.tar doesn'

[techtalk] Thanks to all (Was: Missing "Taskbar" in KDE)

2000-03-01 Thread Storm
Everything seems fixed now, and I'm up and running. Now I just have to get my soundcard, NIC and modem working, and I'm off and running :) Message for Rik: Thank you as well! I reinstalled Mandrake on one of my machines, just to fix a whole mess of problems,... and noticed that I was asked

Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread Andrew Plumb
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Snarfblat wrote: > My appologies for spreading misinformation... No need; it's tricky stuff and deserves to plastered with "proceed with caution" stickers. After all, we're dealing with a trojan OS called Windows. :-) Andrew. -- Andrew Plumb, VE3SLG mailto://andrew(at)plum

RE: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread Robert Siemer
Hi! From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I am having a problem with a dualboot myself, but on a single hard > drive. I believe the problem may be that the Linux partition is too > close to the end of the disk. Install lilo. What does it say? (The space on the disk where the kernel is must me accessable f

Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread Storm
This will tell you a little about Fdisk /MBR ( "the command rewrites the master boot record (MBR) only, and not the entire boot record. The FDISK /MBR command rewrites only the first 446 bytes of the master boot record, not the partition table." ) It might not help in this case. http://support.mic

Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread Mandi
No, unfortunately, never had the cash for a SCSI drive/connectors, and when i did i just bought another whole machine instead, so when i get sick of windows, i can format and have two linux boxes... .. hhhmm... On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Shirrell wrote: > Are any of these Linux/NT inst

Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > AHA! My DVD is bootable! And I have a CD-RW > Will let you know if this works tonight... thanks Jeff! Cool. Since it's a bit larger than a floppy, you can put a whole root filesystem on it if you want. I'm not sure that's a great idea, though. /dev likes to be

Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread Snarfblat
Andrew Plumb wrote: > > As Harry mentioned, there's a howto which works quite nicely, particularly > if your boot partition is NTFS. I suspect the problems relate to using > NTFS as your boot partition instead of FAT. > My appologies for spreading misinformation... -- .oO()Oo.oO()Oo.oO()Oo.o

Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread Shirrell
Are any of these Linux/NT installs with the Linux on an external SCSI Jazz drive? If so I would like to know how you did it. All the info I found on the web was for internal drives. It would be great if I could get rid of these floppy boots. Shirrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [techtalk] Modem issues

2000-03-01 Thread moebius
Hey Kat, Missed out on the initial thread, sorry. Can you post the serial listings from dmesg and also what prog's you're using to access the modem. Regards, Harry Hoffman Product Systems Specialist Restaurants Unlimited Inc. 206.634.3082 x. 270 On Wed, 1 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > D

RE: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread moebius
Hey Sally, That is the default behavior if you put LILO on a hd partition instead of the MBR. Kinda equivalent to saying: LILO: linux root=/dev/hda3 HTH, Harry Hoffman Product Systems Specialist Restaurants Unlimited Inc. 206.634.3082 x. 270 On Wed, 1 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > AHA!

Re: [techtalk] Modem issues

2000-03-01 Thread katd
> Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 23:44:40 -0600 > From: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > What do you mean by this? The system normally just sees the serial port, and > doesn't know what if anything is attached to it. I was speaking metaphorically. I'm using Kppp. I can query the modem for ATI info

Re: [techtalk] xseti

2000-03-01 Thread Stephan Zaniolo
There are actually several 'xseti's (by different names of course ;^) Some of the seti distributions contain an "xsetiathome" program (e.g. setiathome-2.0.i386-pc-linux-gnu-gnulibc2.1.tar has it, but setiathome-2.0.i686-pc-linux-gnu-gnulibc2.1.tar doesn't). Other choices are:

Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread Mandi
I have to heartily concur with Harry here. NT and Linux will play VERY nice together. Ive had more luck with NT-first-then-Linux installs, while a friend of mine swears by Linux-first-then-Nt installs. syscom is an incredible tool, if you can put your hands on it. I have an old version somewhe

Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread Andrew Plumb
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Snarfblat wrote: [deletia] > I appologize if this has been mentioned, but lilo will not work with > NT. They both seem to want the MBR in an exclusive manner, so you must > pick one or the other, or find another os manager like System Commander > (which will play nice with NT)

Re: [techtalk] xseti

2000-03-01 Thread Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun
On Mar 1, Linda Walsh conjectured: > I just recently jumped on the seti bandwagon. I downloaded the > unix client (text only) -- but there is reference to an 'xseti' > add-on that plots the seti data. Does anyone know where I can > download it? I couldn't find it on the setiathome.ssl.berkele

Re: [techtalk] Thanks: gcc versions and bus error

2000-03-01 Thread Becky L. Norum
Thanks to the folks that answered my question. The answers were much straighter than ones I could find elsewhere on the net. :) Take care, Becky Norum [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

RE: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread Sally_Hutchinson
AHA! My DVD is bootable! And I have a CD-RW Will let you know if this works tonight... thanks Jeff! *wondering why I didn't think of that before... duh* Strange though, I never get an option of what OS to load. If the floppy is in the drive, it boots up Redhat like it's the only OS on my

Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread Linda Walsh
You can also buy a program "Partition Magic" -- costly for the use, about $70 bucks, but it can move the dos partition up by say 32Meg. Then you can put a /boot partition in that first 32 Meg and the rest of linux can go anywhere you like. The /boot partition can be as small as 2Meg, but if you

[techtalk] xseti

2000-03-01 Thread Linda Walsh
I just recently jumped on the seti bandwagon. I downloaded the unix client (text only) -- but there is reference to an 'xseti' add-on that plots the seti data. Does anyone know where I can download it? I couldn't find it on the setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu site (maybe I just don't know where to

Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread moebius
Hello All, That is simply not the case. Here at work I have a dual boot NT/Linux(RH6.1) machine. There are great howto's around on getting it to work and it's not that difficult. Regards, Harry Hoffman Product Systems Specialist Restaurants Unlimited Inc. 206.634.3082 x. 270 On Wed, 1 Mar 2

[techtalk] System time vs Resolved Time

2000-03-01 Thread Phil Savoie
Hi All, Another Question! On Madrake 6.1 if I type the date command I see the proper time. Netscape, on the other hand resolves the time exactly 5 hours off (GMT, I guess). My question is where in the system can this be changed? Better yet, where can I find the notation that denotes (Canada/E

Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread Shirrell
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Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread Robert A. Newman
Hi folks My first post here, but I've been following you for a couple of months now. I only just got my first Linux box running, +/-, had the "above 1024th cylinder" problem, tried to fix it by re-installing lilo in mbr, then I Really had a problem, couldn't boot Windoze, finally held my brea

Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread Andrew Plumb
Also check around the website of your hard-drive manufacturer. When I moved my Western Digital drive from slave (/dev/hdb) to master (/dev/hda) I was getting the same "L 01 01 01..." when attempting to boot. They had a simple DOS utility that, when run, created a special boot-floppy to (re)crea

Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread Snarfblat
Shirrell wrote: > > I had the same problem trying to install linux on an external > drive on a PC running NT when I tried to install for a dual boot > with lilo -- the 01 01 screen was a result of overwriting my > master boot record. I appologize if this has been mentioned, but lilo will not wo

Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread Shirrell
I had the same problem trying to install linux on an external drive on a PC running NT when I tried to install for a dual boot with lilo -- the 01 01 screen was a result of overwriting my master boot record. I don't recall the exact fix (the first time I reinstalled NT) but I believe that you ca

Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread Jeff Dike
> In any case, I can't boot Linux without the boot disk, and when I do, > "starting linux" it takes about 10 minutes for all the dots to go > across the screen. Any hints on how to speed up my boot? Boot off something other than a floppy. Zips can be made bootable, I think. > Or on how > to

Re: [techtalk] viewer for doc/excel

2000-03-01 Thread Marie Fischer
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Sean Garrett (MBD) wrote: > there is an msword to html converter as well called mswordview its cli > based so it might be possible to open the mime type with a perl script > or some such and then open the .html file created it's called wvHtml now, package should be wv (or wvVa

RE: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread Sally_Hutchinson
Jeff wrote: >If you have a spare partition on your first disk, you might try installing >Linux there (even if it's only enough to boot the system) and putting all of >your data on the second disk (after the kernel is booted, the BIOS isn't used >any more, so there shouldn't be any trouble with

Re: [techtalk] viewer for doc/excel

2000-03-01 Thread Sean Garrett (MBD)
abs is a smaller util than staroffice ( SO is a memory hog ) it can open excel docs and has a macro language thats compatible with vba. i dont use it tho it seems to be the lightest out there ( KSpread being still in dev and Gnumeric having given me odd little things occationally) i dont use it be